Hedi Slimane Quotes

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

I think I came alive when I started photography.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'

Painting completed my life.

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

I love creating. I had been really into photography when I was in college.